Saying Goodbye.....

....is never easy :-(

I never expected this, but saying goodbye to people here is far harder than saying goodbye to everyone at home when I left. Because with friends and family back home, there is a sort-of built-in guarantee that you will see them again. But when you make friends while living abroad, that guarantee is not there. We are all from different places, many of us are only in Korea for a limited time. Our lives brought us together for awhile, but once we are gone from this place who knows when or if we will ever see each other again. And that makes the goodbye a hell of a lot harder.

It's almost 2 a.m. and my flight leaves tomorrow at 2 p.m. I'm packed, cleaned and ready to go. All I have to do before going to bed is wait for my nails to dry. I don't want to go to bed though, because it means that I will wake up and have to leave. And I don't really want to leave yet.

All I can think to say right now is how lucky I am to have such wonderful people in my life, even though it makes it that much harder to leave....